Spend time around water (as a
diver, how can you avoid it?)
and sooner or later, you come
across someone who lost
something underwater. If
you’re looking for the
challenge and excitement
– along with doing your
good deed for the day –
the PADI Search and Recovery
Diver Specialty course is for
you. It gives you the skills
you need to find what’s
been lost, and how to get it to
the surface.
In the
PADI Search and Recovery
Diver specialty course, you
learn search and recovery dive
planning, organization,
procedures, techniques and how
to deal with potential
problems. You learn how to
locate large and small objects
using search patterns, and
various ways for lifting them
to the surface. Not only do
these skills make you more
capable and confident in the
water, but most Search and
Recovery Divers eventually end
up searching for and recovering
something they lost
themselves.
- Must be a PADI Advanced
Open Water Diver or a PADI
Open Water Diver with the
PADI Underwater Navigator
Specialty (or equivalent
certification from another
organization)
- Must be at least 12 years
old
- Number of Dives: Four
- Search patterns, lift bag
use and recovery methods
- Limited visibility
techniques and navigation for
search and recovery
- Materials: You’ll
Need Search and Recovery-Pak,
which includes the PADI
Search and Recovery Diver
Manual and the Search and
Recovery video
- Certification counts
toward the PADI Master Scuba
Diver rating
Find what you’ve lost
with the PADI Search and
Recovery Diver Specialty
course.
For more information on
becoming a PADI Search and
Recovery Course please
contact us or
continue to explore the course
options below.
